I really dont see how humans have changed much mentally. Physically yes we have changed, gotten taller, less hairy, really though we dont know we came from apes so lets not assume that evolutionary darwin theories are absolute truths.
Second, Humans still act savage, they kill, they rape, they manipulate, they are greedy, theres alot of very apeish animal like traits that humans have. Alot of humans in fact the majority of them are still ignorant just like they were 5 thousand years ago, 10 thousand years ago, 20 thousand years ago.
The diffrence is, while most humans havent evolved at all, I say a few humans have evolved beyond that point and because theres a few humans who are evolved, they keep the rest of the ignorant ones in check.
We have technology, but please dont tell me the average human is developing technology, the average human does very slavish type work in an office.
The day when people no longer kill at all, meaning all people, the day when we no longer have wars, when terrorists dont exsists, when theres no racism, when theres no sexism, and when everyone generally evolves to the next level and not just 15%, this is when you can say humans have mentally evolved beyond what they were in the past.
Right now though, we are only maybe 1-2% beyond what we were during roman times, while we dont go around enslaving people anymore, theres still millions of people who want to do this still (the KKK and these other morons)
People have evolved technically, and science has evolved, but in terms of socially, and in terms of people being more intelligent, nothing has chanced much, and if it has only by a few percent.
Its funny how people starving in afganastan outsmart the hell out of us and destroy the world trade.
Its also funny how starving Chinese people somehow create all these nice electronics and how they have all these scientists,
And its also funny, that people in Isreal happen to make better computer technologies than the fat over eating lazy Americans.
Look at the new DNA computer?
The brain operates at a certain level regardless of what you eat, however if these other countries like China and the middle east etc etc ever got healthy, They'd be so much smarter than us that it wouldnt be funny anymore.
School has nothing to do with intelligence, how many times must i tell you.
And stupid kids in class may end up being scientists like einstien or rich like bill gates.
Last but not least, its a bad idea to test someones intelligence when they arent even fully developed, a child or a kids mind you can never truely figure out because its always changing, in phases.
Also the parents who "seem" stupid, may be smart as hell in specific areas.
Theres alot of people who are truely ignorant but totally a genius at the same time.
Someone like Adolph hitler, total military genius, but barely sane and if you met him in school you'd consider him to be stupid.
Some which we dont really understand, some which we havent even discovered yet.
And IQ isnt exactly math or logic either, if you want logical intelligence, talk to a world champion chess player, not someone who did well on a silly IQ test.
If you want math intelligence, talk to someone whos career is math, who created new types of math and does nothing but math.
To test people who havent even really FOCUSED on developing the intelligence needed to do well on an IQ test (most people try to be well rounded) they arent going to do good.
But i believe anyone can learn to develop skills to allow them to do good on tests, some easier than others, but its a skill and you cant really measure someones intelligence by a skill or natural talent unless you know they put all their effort into it.
You can do well on the IQ test, do well in school, and not be very intelligent.
In fact, most people who you see doing well in school are just average people whos best trait happens to be a gene which allows them to listen to rules, and follow instructions, and pass tests.
This allows them to do well in school, its a trait.
This trait isnt intelligence and its been proven for many many years, that theres no such thing as general intelligence, theres skills, everyone has a set of skills, and everyone is a genius at something, either they havent found out what it is because they never got the chance, or they know what it is, but they want to be well rounded (school teaches you to be well rounded) and so they never focus on it.
You can measure someones IQ, thats still not going to measure their intelligence.
When you must understand is, people are very specialized. A person good at math may not know how to read. A person whos a writer may not know how to do math.
A computer technician may not have social skills
You see, each persons brain is very specialized, and everyone is a genius in certain things. No one is a genius in everything.
The people who become the genius's of the world are simply the people who happen to find their gift and focus 100 percent on it.
School does not promote this, school forces everyone to be the same, and tries to force the human brain which is very specialized to be well rounded, the exact opposite of what its designed to do.
Take a chess player like bobby fischer, put him in a classroom teaching everything besides chess and he'd be just an average guy, put him in a room with other chess players and hes the best player on the planet.
Take einstien, put him in a school, and hes just an average guy, may even fail, but then introduce him to science and he changes the world with his theory.
Take bill gates, put him in school, watch as he drops out and then starts the most successful company in american history.
Intelligence has nothing to do with academics, the only way academics could truely measure intelligence is if it allowed a person to truely focus on ONE thing, because in order to be a genius, you have to be focused on one thing and one thing only, Bill gates focus's 100 percent on business, its his life, Bobby fischer 100 percent on chess, Einstien 100 percent on science.
THIS does not mean these people are more intelligent than us, they are just more focused than us.
Being well rounded almost guarentees you'll never be a "genius" because its impossibile to be a jack of all trades.
Right now, theres no easy way to measure true intelligence.
The "G" is Academic intelligence, which i dont even know if i can call that intelligence because its more of a trait.
Diffrent people have diffrent traits, some people love structure and rules that school forces on people, Some people hate structure and rules being forced on them (I am one of those people)
But whats this have to do with intelligence? Not much.
I'd measure intelligence by the speed at which someone learns something, by how fast they figure something out WITHOUT a teacher, and how well they can teach themselves, because in the real world, theres no one ot hold your hand, to force you to learn, and this is where the people who may have gotten all As in school end up being complete failures in life.
Intelligence is on many levels, I think thats what this proves, and genes decides which areas you are intelligent in and which you are weak in. This isnt very surprising to me because I already KNEW this.
Take a doctor, theres no way i could go to medical school for all those years, and do the kind of work a doctor does, but then again, theres no way the doctor could do the kinda technical work that I do.
And theres no way either of us could do the kinda work that an athelete does on the soccer field,
Well perhaps anyone can do anything, but depending on your genes decides how fast you learn what, I support my genes allow me to learn highly complicated technical information with ease, and allow me to operate a computer with ease. Some other people can handle math which i just cant mess with, like calculus, with ease and minimal effort,
Just like someone like micheal jordan can play basketball and make it look easy, because genetically people are very specialized, theres no such thing as general intelligence.
Opera doesnt support even half the standards of Mozilla.
Opera doesnt have an email app.
Opera doesnt have spell checking, composer.
Opera doesnt have very good bookmarking.
Opera doesnt have good security features.
Opera doesnt have password auto complete, form complete etc.
Opera may have tabbed browsing but so does everything else.
Opera doesnt have themes.
Opera doesnt support MathML.
Opera to me is at the level of Netscape 3x
Its a slim downed browser, compareable to other slim browsers, but not to something like Mozilla.
Opera has built in ICQ but so what, Mozilla is owned by AOL and will always has the best built in ICQ and AOL support so lets not go here.
MOzilla has built in AOL, opera does not. MOzilla has built in jabber support so you can load ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, etc.
MOzilla has a full functioning news reader, Email Client, Composer, Spell checker, IRC chat, Address book features, Multiple Language support, Themes, Security features, Full plugin support, Java support, XML support, XUL support.
Opera is more compareable to konq for linux, or kmeleon for windows than to Mozilla.
Mozilla beats it feature for feature, standard for standard.
Then mozilla is as fast as IE. I admit some parts of the code are slower because its not a native app, but they are working on speed right now. It should eventually be just as fast.
Mozillas codebase currently is IE 6.0 level in terms of features quality, and speed.
It took Microsoft 6-7 years to get to this point, It took Mozilla 4 years.
4 Years is pretty good.
Opera is about 3 years behind Mozilla so dont even mention Opera. Opera isnt nearly as powerful, Opera is a light weight browser thats nothing special, its something anyone could have written up in a year or two.
Mozilla on the other hand has alot more features and the only browser to compete with it feature for feature is IE, currently Mozilla supports more standards, has better security and is more stable than IE 6.0 making Mozilla more complete.
When IE 7.0 releases, it will essentially be updated to be more secure, support more standards and basically be more like Mozilla.
As far as Mozilla 2.0, Mozilla has the base done, the base what took 4 years, once the base is done all they have to do for 2.0 is add a few new features most likely to support new standards, optimize it for speed to make sure its faster than IE and Opera, fix bugs so it never crashes, and then allow Netscape and AOL to intergrate ICQ, AOLIM, Winamp and so on into it in a way that doesnt make it seem overwelming.
Right now AOL isnt properly intergrated, but once it is, i see it being very useful, more useful than email for sure.
And ICQ intergration would be good too.
From there intergrate netscape into AOLs software suite.
Now while Microsoft fixes all their bugs and security, Mozilla will be adding new features.
If Mozilla developes at the pace it is right now, it will be about 2 -3 years ahead in development of Microsoft when 2.0 comes out.
So now you tell me no on but my mother can be trusted and its impossible to ever make friends who wont backstab me.
You wonder why I'm anti social?!
You are right, most people do backstab, Thats why i dont make friends with most people, THAT is why I am anti social, because i dont have time for backstabbers, liars, manipulators, and "fake" people.
Quality over quantity, I'd rather have a few friends, than be surrounded by a group of fake friends just waiting for the right time to backstab me and take advantage of me.
If this is what you call friendship, you and I could never in a million years be friends. And i wouldnt want to be friends with any of your friends either since you describe them all as backstabbers.
Now perhaps your mother would make a good friend since she seems to be the only honest person you seem to know in life.
Thats sad.
"Better to have friend than to wish for the impossible.
Frankly, if you want somebody to roll over for you (your definition of a 'real friend'), get a dog."
Actually its the opposite, i feel most people arent trust worthy.
I dont care if people trust me or not, why should i be worried about what other people think of me? I suppose some people do, these same people are usually depressed all the time because "people" dont like them.
Face it, what people think about you doesnt really matter, what you think about yourself is what matters.
So I can play your game, I can assume you are a depressed person, who tries really hard to be liked, to fit in, to be accepted, who tries to make friends with everyone around them even people who dont like you.
However, I dont think its ever wise to assume anything about anyone. Everyone starts off with a completely blank slate, they create their profile through their actions.
Currently your profile says you stereotype the hell out of people and if you met me in person you most likely would stereotype me instantly because i am not what YOU consider to be normal.
Hm, its funny, but some people would stereotype you in the exact same way just because you use computers and happen to wear glasses.
Ok about being screwed over, yeah that did happen, but i'm sure it doesnt only happen to me, People screw people over.
Not being careful is stupid, Go ahead, tell your children to talk to stranger, tell your children to trust the strange looking man, get into his car, after all you can "trust" him right?
Open your eyes, see how the real world is, this world is a very cut throat and cruel world, with alot of cruel people in it, I am not saying everyone is this way but alot of people are, and you HAVE to be careful and watch your back at all times, especially at work!
Theres alot of maniuplative and twisted people, and just because I see how alot of people are doesnt mean I am one of them.
Does a rape victim then become a rapist? In most cases not, in fact in most cases the rape victim hates the rapist.
So your way of thinking is backwards.
I'm not saying my way of thinking works for everyone, but it works for ME. And despite what you say I never grouped anyone, I'm just treating work how it SHOULD be treated.
Do you walk into a battlefield with a peice sign and tell the people on the field how you love them and want to be their friend? Sure some of them will make friends with you, but not all of them, some of them will take advantage of you, and some of them will become your enemies.
Now most people i know, have enemies at work, have been backstabbed at work, it happens usually when people allow it to happen, and they allow it to happen by mixing the work and personal relationship alittle too much.
so you are poor, and you want to raise up kids who go to bad schools who get poor peoples education, so what if your kid wants to be a doctor or an astronaught?
"I'm sorry son but i dont have the money to pay for your schooling, you'll have to get a job at 15, drop out of school and work at mc donalds"
Why do you think most poor people in this country end up being the criminals? Because unless you have a degree you wont get a job, and your chances of getting a decent education if you are poor are slim, and forget about paying for college, if you are poor you have to beg people for money, take out loans, juggle work and school.
Sure its possible to be successful yet poor, but its a hell of alot harder, if you grew poor as I did, then you DONT want your children to have to go through what you went through to make it to where you are.
I mean isnt that the whole motivation to going to work every morning? What motivates you to go to work if not for your family or for the money? Why? Oh wait, you go to work because "Its so much fun!" and all of your friends happen to be at work.
Geez, I cant imagine myself thinking work is fun, i mean its work.
I tolerate work, but I cant wait to get home to have time to myself to do what I want to do, when i want to do it, talk to my friends, my family.
And if i have kids and a wife, spend time with them.
This is what motivates a person to go to work, They want their family to be happy, they need money for their kids education, people go to work because they have to, very few people go to work because they "WANT" to, perhaps a few people work for the fun of it, people who have cool jobs like a musician, an actor, a basketball player (jordan) or something like that, but most people have jobs which are very repetitive, and not very amusing, which lack freedom of creativity, etc etc
Its your choice, if you want your children to struggle through life working 2 jobs go ahead
Also, $8 an hour, thats minimum wage here in Boston, you wouldnt even make enough money to pay rent off of that, You'd need 2 jobs.
Where you live matters too, living where you do its cheaper, most likely in the south or mid west, living in a city, such a silicon valley, or new york, or any big city, you have a diffrent enviornment, its more competitive, rent is more expensive, money matters more in diffrent places.
Lastly, education, public schools suck everywhere, you can put your kid in a public school, give him a crappy education and hope your kid can learn to be successful on his own like most people do, or you can spend cash and put him in a private school, give him the best education, and watch him get a scholarship to harvard.
I'm tired of the excuse of "Its human nature"
Killing is human nature
Rape is human nature
Stealing is human nature
Terrorism is human nature
Hate is human nature
Geez, what exactly is human nature? the nature of humanity? Whys it make humans to be so bad?
Human nature must evolve. Technology evolved, Human nature must evolve or we will in a stunning act of human nature, destroy ourselves like we destroy everything around us because THAT is human nature.
In my opinion, Some things in this world must chagnge, this means ignorance must end, stereotyping must end, human nature is not an excuse, I'm sorry but i wont accept it.
I dont stereotype, I dont hate, I'm not ignorant, I may be a social outcast because of it, but hey, I'm sure i'm not the only person in the world evolved beyond the level of "human nature"
The typical computer geek social outcast catagory, the one that all you slashdotters seem to frown upon,
I'm going to admit, people skills is not my specialty, technical skills are.
I wont try to pretend it is.
However as far as stereotypes go, it just shows how immature society is, when will society evolve beyond stereotypes?
Stereotypes are why theres racism, sexism and all of these other problems that ignorant people who stereotype cause.
I never judge anyone until after i know them and i never put them in catagories.
I dont feel any 2 people are exactly alike, I do feel some people fit into catagories more than others, mainly because they TRY to fit in to get acceptance by society (so they dont end up an outcast like me)
someone like me however does not CARE what society thinks and does their own thing, lives in their own world.
They CANT read because they dont go to private schools like you did with fancy computers etc etc.
Dont you think a computer is more valueable to someone whos poor and in the inner city who actually needs it, than someone whos rich and uses a computer just for fun or to play quake?
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I really dont see how humans have changed much mentally. Physically yes we have changed, gotten taller, less hairy, really though we dont know we came from apes so lets not assume that evolutionary darwin theories are absolute truths.
Second, Humans still act savage, they kill, they rape, they manipulate, they are greedy, theres alot of very apeish animal like traits that humans have. Alot of humans in fact the majority of them are still ignorant just like they were 5 thousand years ago, 10 thousand years ago, 20 thousand years ago.
The diffrence is, while most humans havent evolved at all, I say a few humans have evolved beyond that point and because theres a few humans who are evolved, they keep the rest of the ignorant ones in check.
We have technology, but please dont tell me the average human is developing technology, the average human does very slavish type work in an office.
The day when people no longer kill at all, meaning all people, the day when we no longer have wars, when terrorists dont exsists, when theres no racism, when theres no sexism, and when everyone generally evolves to the next level and not just 15%, this is when you can say humans have mentally evolved beyond what they were in the past.
Right now though, we are only maybe 1-2% beyond what we were during roman times, while we dont go around enslaving people anymore, theres still millions of people who want to do this still (the KKK and these other morons)
People have evolved technically, and science has evolved, but in terms of socially, and in terms of people being more intelligent, nothing has chanced much, and if it has only by a few percent.
Its funny how people starving in afganastan outsmart the hell out of us and destroy the world trade.
Its also funny how starving Chinese people somehow create all these nice electronics and how they have all these scientists,
And its also funny, that people in Isreal happen to make better computer technologies than the fat over eating lazy Americans.
Look at the new DNA computer?
The brain operates at a certain level regardless of what you eat, however if these other countries like China and the middle east etc etc ever got healthy, They'd be so much smarter than us that it wouldnt be funny anymore.
School has nothing to do with intelligence, how many times must i tell you.
And stupid kids in class may end up being scientists like einstien or rich like bill gates.
Last but not least, its a bad idea to test someones intelligence when they arent even fully developed, a child or a kids mind you can never truely figure out because its always changing, in phases.
Also the parents who "seem" stupid, may be smart as hell in specific areas.
Theres alot of people who are truely ignorant but totally a genius at the same time.
Someone like Adolph hitler, total military genius, but barely sane and if you met him in school you'd consider him to be stupid.
Some which we dont really understand, some which we havent even discovered yet.
And IQ isnt exactly math or logic either, if you want logical intelligence, talk to a world champion chess player, not someone who did well on a silly IQ test.
If you want math intelligence, talk to someone whos career is math, who created new types of math and does nothing but math.
To test people who havent even really FOCUSED on developing the intelligence needed to do well on an IQ test (most people try to be well rounded) they arent going to do good.
But i believe anyone can learn to develop skills to allow them to do good on tests, some easier than others, but its a skill and you cant really measure someones intelligence by a skill or natural talent unless you know they put all their effort into it.
You can do well on the IQ test, do well in school, and not be very intelligent.
In fact, most people who you see doing well in school are just average people whos best trait happens to be a gene which allows them to listen to rules, and follow instructions, and pass tests.
This allows them to do well in school, its a trait.
This trait isnt intelligence and its been proven for many many years, that theres no such thing as general intelligence, theres skills, everyone has a set of skills, and everyone is a genius at something, either they havent found out what it is because they never got the chance, or they know what it is, but they want to be well rounded (school teaches you to be well rounded) and so they never focus on it.
You can measure someones IQ, thats still not going to measure their intelligence.
When you must understand is, people are very specialized. A person good at math may not know how to read. A person whos a writer may not know how to do math.
A computer technician may not have social skills
You see, each persons brain is very specialized, and everyone is a genius in certain things. No one is a genius in everything.
The people who become the genius's of the world are simply the people who happen to find their gift and focus 100 percent on it.
School does not promote this, school forces everyone to be the same, and tries to force the human brain which is very specialized to be well rounded, the exact opposite of what its designed to do.
Take a chess player like bobby fischer, put him in a classroom teaching everything besides chess and he'd be just an average guy, put him in a room with other chess players and hes the best player on the planet.
Take einstien, put him in a school, and hes just an average guy, may even fail, but then introduce him to science and he changes the world with his theory.
Take bill gates, put him in school, watch as he drops out and then starts the most successful company in american history.
Intelligence has nothing to do with academics, the only way academics could truely measure intelligence is if it allowed a person to truely focus on ONE thing, because in order to be a genius, you have to be focused on one thing and one thing only, Bill gates focus's 100 percent on business, its his life, Bobby fischer 100 percent on chess, Einstien 100 percent on science.
THIS does not mean these people are more intelligent than us, they are just more focused than us.
Being well rounded almost guarentees you'll never be a "genius" because its impossibile to be a jack of all trades.
Right now, theres no easy way to measure true intelligence.
The "G" is Academic intelligence, which i dont even know if i can call that intelligence because its more of a trait.
Diffrent people have diffrent traits, some people love structure and rules that school forces on people, Some people hate structure and rules being forced on them (I am one of those people)
But whats this have to do with intelligence? Not much.
I'd measure intelligence by the speed at which someone learns something, by how fast they figure something out WITHOUT a teacher, and how well they can teach themselves, because in the real world, theres no one ot hold your hand, to force you to learn, and this is where the people who may have gotten all As in school end up being complete failures in life.
Intelligence is on many levels, I think thats what this proves, and genes decides which areas you are intelligent in and which you are weak in. This isnt very surprising to me because I already KNEW this.
Take a doctor, theres no way i could go to medical school for all those years, and do the kind of work a doctor does, but then again, theres no way the doctor could do the kinda technical work that I do.
And theres no way either of us could do the kinda work that an athelete does on the soccer field,
Well perhaps anyone can do anything, but depending on your genes decides how fast you learn what, I support my genes allow me to learn highly complicated technical information with ease, and allow me to operate a computer with ease. Some other people can handle math which i just cant mess with, like calculus, with ease and minimal effort,
Just like someone like micheal jordan can play basketball and make it look easy, because genetically people are very specialized, theres no such thing as general intelligence.
The USA has built one of these a long time ago, at least a few years now.
This isnt new.
Opera doesnt support even half the standards of Mozilla.
Opera doesnt have an email app.
Opera doesnt have spell checking, composer.
Opera doesnt have very good bookmarking.
Opera doesnt have good security features.
Opera doesnt have password auto complete, form complete etc.
Opera may have tabbed browsing but so does everything else.
Opera doesnt have themes.
Opera doesnt support MathML.
Opera to me is at the level of Netscape 3x
Its a slim downed browser, compareable to other slim browsers, but not to something like Mozilla.
Opera has built in ICQ but so what, Mozilla is owned by AOL and will always has the best built in ICQ and AOL support so lets not go here.
MOzilla has built in AOL, opera does not. MOzilla has built in jabber support so you can load ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, etc.
MOzilla has a full functioning news reader, Email Client, Composer, Spell checker, IRC chat, Address book features, Multiple Language support, Themes, Security features, Full plugin support, Java support, XML support, XUL support.
Opera is more compareable to konq for linux, or kmeleon for windows than to Mozilla.
Mozilla beats it feature for feature, standard for standard.
Then mozilla is as fast as IE. I admit some parts of the code are slower because its not a native app, but they are working on speed right now. It should eventually be just as fast.
When i change my font settings, it should save damnit!!
Use the turbo feature, Mozilla loads faster than IE.
Before you say something is slow, turn on the features!
Mozillas codebase currently is IE 6.0 level in terms of features quality, and speed.
It took Microsoft 6-7 years to get to this point, It took Mozilla 4 years.
4 Years is pretty good.
Opera is about 3 years behind Mozilla so dont even mention Opera. Opera isnt nearly as powerful, Opera is a light weight browser thats nothing special, its something anyone could have written up in a year or two.
Mozilla on the other hand has alot more features and the only browser to compete with it feature for feature is IE, currently Mozilla supports more standards, has better security and is more stable than IE 6.0 making Mozilla more complete.
When IE 7.0 releases, it will essentially be updated to be more secure, support more standards and basically be more like Mozilla.
As far as Mozilla 2.0, Mozilla has the base done, the base what took 4 years, once the base is done all they have to do for 2.0 is add a few new features most likely to support new standards, optimize it for speed to make sure its faster than IE and Opera, fix bugs so it never crashes, and then allow Netscape and AOL to intergrate ICQ, AOLIM, Winamp and so on into it in a way that doesnt make it seem overwelming.
Right now AOL isnt properly intergrated, but once it is, i see it being very useful, more useful than email for sure.
And ICQ intergration would be good too.
From there intergrate netscape into AOLs software suite.
Now while Microsoft fixes all their bugs and security, Mozilla will be adding new features.
If Mozilla developes at the pace it is right now, it will be about 2 -3 years ahead in development of Microsoft when 2.0 comes out.
Why so you can backstab me like you do all your other "friends"
No we cant be friends. Perhaps we can be business partners, someone like you would run a successful company.
So now you tell me no on but my mother can be trusted and its impossible to ever make friends who wont backstab me.
You wonder why I'm anti social?!
You are right, most people do backstab, Thats why i dont make friends with most people, THAT is why I am anti social, because i dont have time for backstabbers, liars, manipulators, and "fake" people.
Quality over quantity, I'd rather have a few friends, than be surrounded by a group of fake friends just waiting for the right time to backstab me and take advantage of me.
If this is what you call friendship, you and I could never in a million years be friends. And i wouldnt want to be friends with any of your friends either since you describe them all as backstabbers.
Now perhaps your mother would make a good friend since she seems to be the only honest person you seem to know in life.
Thats sad.
"Better to have friend than to wish for the impossible.
Frankly, if you want somebody to roll over for you (your definition of a 'real friend'), get a dog."
This Quote properly defines you.
It seems most people dont have the slightest clue of the diffrence between a fake friend and a true friend.
True friends are are, hard to find, and chances are you wont find them at a place like work.
Its possible to make friends anywhere, but in my personal opinion, work is one of the worse places.
And you get it all backwards.
Actually its the opposite, i feel most people arent trust worthy.
I dont care if people trust me or not, why should i be worried about what other people think of me? I suppose some people do, these same people are usually depressed all the time because "people" dont like them.
Face it, what people think about you doesnt really matter, what you think about yourself is what matters.
So I can play your game, I can assume you are a depressed person, who tries really hard to be liked, to fit in, to be accepted, who tries to make friends with everyone around them even people who dont like you.
However, I dont think its ever wise to assume anything about anyone. Everyone starts off with a completely blank slate, they create their profile through their actions.
Currently your profile says you stereotype the hell out of people and if you met me in person you most likely would stereotype me instantly because i am not what YOU consider to be normal.
Hm, its funny, but some people would stereotype you in the exact same way just because you use computers and happen to wear glasses.
Ok about being screwed over, yeah that did happen, but i'm sure it doesnt only happen to me, People screw people over.
Not being careful is stupid, Go ahead, tell your children to talk to stranger, tell your children to trust the strange looking man, get into his car, after all you can "trust" him right?
Open your eyes, see how the real world is, this world is a very cut throat and cruel world, with alot of cruel people in it, I am not saying everyone is this way but alot of people are, and you HAVE to be careful and watch your back at all times, especially at work!
Theres alot of maniuplative and twisted people, and just because I see how alot of people are doesnt mean I am one of them.
Does a rape victim then become a rapist? In most cases not, in fact in most cases the rape victim hates the rapist.
So your way of thinking is backwards.
I'm not saying my way of thinking works for everyone, but it works for ME. And despite what you say I never grouped anyone, I'm just treating work how it SHOULD be treated.
Do you walk into a battlefield with a peice sign and tell the people on the field how you love them and want to be their friend? Sure some of them will make friends with you, but not all of them, some of them will take advantage of you, and some of them will become your enemies.
Now most people i know, have enemies at work, have been backstabbed at work, it happens usually when people allow it to happen, and they allow it to happen by mixing the work and personal relationship alittle too much.
so you are poor, and you want to raise up kids who go to bad schools who get poor peoples education, so what if your kid wants to be a doctor or an astronaught?
"I'm sorry son but i dont have the money to pay for your schooling, you'll have to get a job at 15, drop out of school and work at mc donalds"
Why do you think most poor people in this country end up being the criminals? Because unless you have a degree you wont get a job, and your chances of getting a decent education if you are poor are slim, and forget about paying for college, if you are poor you have to beg people for money, take out loans, juggle work and school.
Sure its possible to be successful yet poor, but its a hell of alot harder, if you grew poor as I did, then you DONT want your children to have to go through what you went through to make it to where you are.
I mean isnt that the whole motivation to going to work every morning? What motivates you to go to work if not for your family or for the money? Why? Oh wait, you go to work because "Its so much fun!" and all of your friends happen to be at work.
Geez, I cant imagine myself thinking work is fun, i mean its work.
I tolerate work, but I cant wait to get home to have time to myself to do what I want to do, when i want to do it, talk to my friends, my family.
And if i have kids and a wife, spend time with them.
This is what motivates a person to go to work, They want their family to be happy, they need money for their kids education, people go to work because they have to, very few people go to work because they "WANT" to, perhaps a few people work for the fun of it, people who have cool jobs like a musician, an actor, a basketball player (jordan) or something like that, but most people have jobs which are very repetitive, and not very amusing, which lack freedom of creativity, etc etc
Its your choice, if you want your children to struggle through life working 2 jobs go ahead
Also, $8 an hour, thats minimum wage here in Boston, you wouldnt even make enough money to pay rent off of that, You'd need 2 jobs.
Where you live matters too, living where you do its cheaper, most likely in the south or mid west, living in a city, such a silicon valley, or new york, or any big city, you have a diffrent enviornment, its more competitive, rent is more expensive, money matters more in diffrent places.
Lastly, education, public schools suck everywhere, you can put your kid in a public school, give him a crappy education and hope your kid can learn to be successful on his own like most people do, or you can spend cash and put him in a private school, give him the best education, and watch him get a scholarship to harvard.
Choice is all yours really.
I'm tired of the excuse of "Its human nature"
Killing is human nature
Rape is human nature
Stealing is human nature
Terrorism is human nature
Hate is human nature
Geez, what exactly is human nature? the nature of humanity? Whys it make humans to be so bad?
Human nature must evolve. Technology evolved, Human nature must evolve or we will in a stunning act of human nature, destroy ourselves like we destroy everything around us because THAT is human nature.
In my opinion, Some things in this world must chagnge, this means ignorance must end, stereotyping must end, human nature is not an excuse, I'm sorry but i wont accept it.
I dont stereotype, I dont hate, I'm not ignorant, I may be a social outcast because of it, but hey, I'm sure i'm not the only person in the world evolved beyond the level of "human nature"
The typical computer geek social outcast catagory, the one that all you slashdotters seem to frown upon,
I'm going to admit, people skills is not my specialty, technical skills are.
I wont try to pretend it is.
However as far as stereotypes go, it just shows how immature society is, when will society evolve beyond stereotypes?
Stereotypes are why theres racism, sexism and all of these other problems that ignorant people who stereotype cause.
I never judge anyone until after i know them and i never put them in catagories.
I dont feel any 2 people are exactly alike, I do feel some people fit into catagories more than others, mainly because they TRY to fit in to get acceptance by society (so they dont end up an outcast like me)
someone like me however does not CARE what society thinks and does their own thing, lives in their own world.
No ones ever really had the chance to CHOOSE So we dont REALLY know what the people want.
We havent given them a list of Os's with every computer and let them choose. No, they buy a computer, and windows is on it. no choice.
They CANT read because they dont go to private schools like you did with fancy computers etc etc.
Dont you think a computer is more valueable to someone whos poor and in the inner city who actually needs it, than someone whos rich and uses a computer just for fun or to play quake?
Think about it.
School is about learning.
Linux is open source.
What better OS to learn than linux?
Who wants donations of software? WE all know it will be for Microsoft windows and most likely be made by Microsoft.
woohoo free Promotion for Microsoft.
This doesnt help anyone but Microsoft. I dont want to hear such BS.
What Microsoft should do is donate that money to open source projects, or better yet, allow the PEOPLE to decide where the money goes.
But the last place i'd want it is to go to schools so More people can be hooked on Microsoft.
Almost as bad as cig companies promoting it to kids, now Microsoft is trying to do it.